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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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rshow55 - 02:26pm Jun 3, 2003 EST (# 12295 of 17697)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

bbbuck - 01:40pm Jun 2, 2003 EST (# 12283 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RErUbPHeYTe.1138282@.f28e622/13931 is a professional piece of work. In response to my statement that I'd set out to talk to people - in ways I'm honor-bound to do - carefully submitting to prior-restraint censorship - as best I can arrange it so that no reasonably classified information would be revealed, the response is

http://check-this-you-mother/komodos-are-pretty.com

A reasonable interpretation of http://check-this-you-mother/komodos-are-pretty.com , which connects to nada, nothingness - is "we'll kill you if you do that."

A message artfully delivered. The NYT probably knows - and I do not - is bbbuck on the NYT payroll? We live in a complex world.

I'm working to do just exactly what I promised Casey I'd do - consistent with things we both promised D.D. Eisenhower we'd try to do.

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Sometimes you can't quite get what you want - but you can simulate enough of it to have much of the needed effect - or even all of it. For example, I may not be able to get verified prior restraint censorship. But I should be able to simulate it well enough so that it will be hard indeed to say that I'm violating reasonable or decent security laws.

Speaking of simulation - Eisenhower, and others who were interested in serious simulations - and economic planning - would be very impressed with how much simulation can do today.

The 'Matrix' Invented: A World of Special Effects by ERIC A. TAUB http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/03/business/media/03MATR.html

Tucked away among the buildings and monumental empty hangars, hundreds of scientists, engineers and graphic artists map out computer-generated battles

Because simulation works as well as it does, there are new technical possibilities for real - with simulation as a stage toward getting to the real thing. The AEA project could have used the simulation capabilities available today.

I could now.

almarst2002 - 10:49pm Jun 3, 2003 EST (# 12296 of 17697)

Anti-American sentiment is widespread and at an all-time high in the Muslim world, a global research project released yesterday said. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,969779,00.html

THEY STILL DON'T LIKE US????!!!!

almarst2002 - 10:59pm Jun 3, 2003 EST (# 12297 of 17697)

As Congress and the media realize they have been "had" with respect to political manipulation and fabrication of intelligence leading to the strategically unwise war on Iraq, and the failed transition to peace in both Afghanistan and Iraq (as well as the losing wars on terrorism, drugs, crime, and poverty), there is renewed discussion of the need for a *public* summit on intelligence reform. - http://www.oss.net/extra/news/?module_instance=1&id=1158

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